Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:04:24 +0200
"Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To continue uncreasing my uptime value I would like to not have to 
> shutdown the machine at the end of each day. However I assume the end
> of day shutdown is not necessary on a linux box. The reason I want to
> do it is that from time to time we have power outages and power
> outages are not nice to a logged on running linux system.
> 
> I am wondering if there is any state I could leave the machine at to 
> ensure that it can be brought back again, should the power fail whilst
> I am sleeping? My current thoughts are to issue the command 'init 1'
> but then should the 'attacker' guess my root password I am finished.
> 
> Yes I am paranoid and the machine is on a dial up connection to my ISP
> 
> with dynamic IP allocation from my ISP.
> 
> I wonder which is the safest method to leave a machine, init 1 or 
> powered off. any comments?
> 
> -- 
> The Little Helper
I leave my desktop on 24x7. The power is stable here, but, for the most
part, if the system is idle, a power failure generally will not cause
any damage. If you have a journaling file system, such as Reiser, then
the restart will be relatively quick. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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